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Most of you know me through Value Added Resource. What you may not know is that I’ve built VAR alongside a full-time day job. That company is winding down at the end of the year, so I’m deciding what I want to take on next.
Over nearly 20 years in ecommerce, I’ve gone from customer service to running operations for an Amazon business with 1.8 million products, helped take a brick-and-mortar retailer online and turned an underused eBay liquidation account into a $2M+ sales channel.
I launched VAR because I saw a gap in how marketplaces were being covered in the media and decided to build what I thought was missing.
Since then, I’ve handled the site, newsletter, social and pretty much everything else behind VAR myself. My reporting draws on seller reports, policy changes, court filings, earnings disclosures and industry relationships to spot stories, patterns and connections that don’t show up in press releases.
I’m keeping the possibilities fairly open and don’t have a particular title in mind. If any of that makes you think “Liz would be weirdly good for ___,” my DMs are open.
$EBAY has responded to questions about its latest layoffs in a statement to Value Added Resource, saying cuts are intended to align teams & resources with its "top strategic priorities."
No additional details provided on affected roles, locations or whether jobs will be moved elsewhere.
Full statement below.
eBay is cutting approximately 9% of its workforce in another major round of layoffs, just eight months after eliminating roughly 800 positions earlier this year.
Stay tuned for updates in this developing story.
$EBAY
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UPDATE: $EBAY expects Q3 results to beat previous guidance as it cuts 9% of workforce.
New SEC filing estimates $130M-$150M in restructuring costs, primarily severance, with layoffs expected to be completed by Q1 2027.
eBay says savings will be reinvested in strategic initiatives, does not disclose how much it expects to save.
Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource retweeted
CONFIRMED - EBAY CUTTING OVER 1,000 EMPLOYEES
eBay is cutting ~9% of its workforce (~1,100 people, to “simplify ops and prioritize growth areas.”
This follows the ~800-job (~6%) cut in February.
They’ve filed 664 H-1B petitions in the same period as these layoffs👀
$EBAY Layoffs? Reducing workforce 9% - Employees will be notified in the coming days.
Have no other confirmation besides this email screenshot at present. Anyone else get this email?
ebay earnings are on Oct 28th.
Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource retweeted
Thanks to $GME and Ryan Cohen, $EBAY has shifted their focus to live commerce big time! They even said recently it is their fastest growing segment after they completely avoided it and let it rot for years while WhatNot ate their lunch. When GameStop first bought eBay stock it was in the $80 range. The stock has moved 50% since then. GameStop is now the largest shareholder of eBay.
eBay offers select sellers 0% Live commissions through October 29 as it expands livestream access & ramps up incentives to boost participation. 👀
$EBAY
eBay is cutting approximately 9% of its workforce in another major round of layoffs, just eight months after eliminating roughly 800 positions earlier this year.
Stay tuned for updates in this developing story.
$EBAY
valueaddedresource.net/ebay-…
$EBAY Layoffs? Reducing workforce 9% - Employees will be notified in the coming days.
Have no other confirmation besides this email screenshot at present. Anyone else get this email?
ebay earnings are on Oct 28th.
The layoff news is not entirely surprising, I noticed some interesting changes in eBay's career's page last month which at the time I noted could signal job cuts were on the way. 🧐
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eBay offers select sellers 0% Live commissions through October 29 as it expands livestream access & ramps up incentives to boost participation. 👀
$EBAY
More on the latest eBay Live promotion 👇
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eBay makes balance enrollment mandatory for eligible users November 4, resetting automatic payouts & changing how sellers can access & spend their earnings. 💵
$EBAY
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Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource retweeted
Reddit user says he has 16 separate packages stolen while bound for eBay authentication via USPS.
Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource retweeted
Do I know any reporters covering labor? Or perhaps an interest in bad practices of a store like Walgreens?
Cc @ValueAddedRS
Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource retweeted
JUST IN: Police have confirmed more than 200 packages filled with PSA-graded cards valued at nearly $1 million were stolen from a FedEx truck.
Value is expected to rise as more packages are investigated.
Details are free to read on @TheAthletic: nytimes.com/athletic/7705932…
Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource retweeted
EBay has a similar problem in their “authentication” system which sends a card valued at more than $250 to an address that isn’t hard to figure out. This PSA issue and this EBay authentication address issue is a “growing problem” I.e. the more popular sports cards becomes, the more crooks will target the industry. Need to be vigilant and protect the consumers better.
Yikes. 😳
PSA officially confirms the theft of graded items from a “third-party shipping vehicle.”
They say all certs for the stolen items have been deactivated.
They will not say how many cards or how much $.
Reports from @BosCardHunter and others say the value is in the millions. 😳😔
eBay is updating its privacy policy globally on November 26, 2026, adding more detailed disclosures about automated monitoring of listings & other user content, AI training on customer data, & automated decisions that could affect seller accounts.
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Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource retweeted
Fakes Are Driving Shoppers Away From Secondhand: ‘I Was Completely Sure’ the-ethos.co/fakes-are-drivi… via @the_ethos_co #fake #luxury #handbags on #secondhand #used preloved platforms #Vinted #Prada and #returns policies #authentication
Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource retweeted
"It’s very interesting to look at the agentic commerce stats at Stripe because we started developing all this stuff and we had a whole bunch of announcements at Sessions back in May, and then it only, as of September, basically started going vertical," said John Collison, Stripe's founder.
"Agentic commerce .. as of September .. started going vertical." Stripe Link through Instinct and Muse?
paymentsdive.com/news/stripe…
